Islam -- History

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A history from the earliest times of Makkah (Mecca), the birth place of Prophet Muḥammad. It was compiled by al-Imām Abiī al-Walīd Muḥammad b. 'Abd-allāh b. Abī al-Walīd Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. al-Walīd al-Ghassanī al-Azraqī al-Makkī (d. 244 A.H., 858 C.E.).

From the present copy the first leaf is unfortunately missing, but for the title and date of transcription see fol. 89b and the colophon.

Scope and Contents These are three short extracts from the Tārīkh al-duwal of al-Fakhr al-Rāzī, by al-Shaykh Abū al-Faraj ‘Abd al-Raḥmān b. ‘Alī al-Jūzī (d. 577 A.H., 1181 C.E.). It contains: Account of the great Khalīfah Hārūn al-Rashīd, the fifth of the line of ‘Abbās, who died, after a reign of 23 years, on the 3rd Jumādá II, 193 A.H. (the 24th March, 809 C.E.), fols. 1-16. ...

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A history of the Prophet Muḥammad and the subsequent Muslim rulers ( Khalīfas) up to 627 A.H., 1230 C.E., which was during the Califate of Al-Mustanṣir Billāh (r. 623-640, A.H., 1226-1242 C.E.), composed by Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. ‘Abdallāh b. ‘Abd al-Mun‘im Shihāb al-Dīn b. Abī Aldam al-Hamdānī al-Ḥamawī (d. 642 A.H., 1244 C.E.).

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This is vol. i of the biographical dictionary of famous persons by Yusuf b. Taghrībirdī al-Mālikī al-Naṣīrī (d. 874 A.H., 1469 C.E.). In all other descriptions he is called al-Ẓahīrī. It begins with an account of the life and reign of al-Malik Mu'izz al-Dīn Aibak al-Turkmānī (fol. 2). The volume ends with the notes on Ṭalhah al-Maghribī. This work is a continuation of the al-Wāfī of al-Ṣafadī up to the time of the author.

Scope and Contents The title translating as "The Sea of Generations," this is the Persian version of a history of the families of the ancestors of Muḥammad from Adam downwards, of himself, of the first six Caliphs, and the Shi'i Imāms. The translator, Muḥammad Ja'far Ḥusaynī of Mecca, states in the preface that the Arabic original was the work of his own father. It is written in very simple style, illustrated with numerous family tables, and in the part dealing with the history of Muḥammad and his ancestors a...

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This is an anonymous abridgement of the Ẓafar-nāmah by Mawlānā Sharaf al-Dīn ‘Alī Yazdī (d. 858 A.H.,1454 C.E.). It is a biography of the great conqueror Tīmūr (Tamerlane) from his birth, 736 A.H., 1336 C.E., to his death, 807 A.H.,1405 C.E..

The section of the manuscript where the date (1004 A.H.) appears is injured, it is bearly legible.

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An abridgement of a work of world history (from the earliest times) by Abū Ja' far Muḥammad b. Jarīr b. Yazīd al-Ṭabarī (839 -923 C.E), a famous imam of Baghdad, great author, and one of the most eminent Iranian scholars of the early Abbasid era.

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This is a history of the caliphs by Jalāl al-Dīn Suyūṭī b. ‘Abd al-Raḥmān b. Abī Bakr, who was a most prolific writer of Egypt and died 911 A.H., 1505 C.E.

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A history of the life and reign of Fīrūz-Shāh., Sulṭān of Dehlī (r. 752-790 A.H., 1351-1388 C.E.).